It’s good to have friends in high places, especially when you’re trying to run a PR campaign about an issue that you helped exacerbate and want to convince the public that you’ve put the genie back in the bottle.

There are many fight fans and individuals outside the fight business who found ESPN’s video feature on Down’s Syndrome MMA fighter Garrett Holeve to be inspirational. Inside the business, however, it’s a different story.

Bob Arum is back on a tangent against the Nevada State Athletic Commission, this time over the $900,000 fine levied against boxer Julior Cesar Chavez Jr. for testing positive for marijuana metabolites.

ESPN thought they were do a heartwarming feature on a young man named Garrett Holeve who suffers from Down’s Syndrome & Rheumatoid Arthritis. He is acting in amateur MMA. Instead, they may have just opened a huge can of worms.

California’s state auditor claims the state’s athletic commission nearly got the death penalty — but says that if Andy Foster can’t clean up the mess that Che Guevara (the man who made the mess) should take over.

There’s a belief in the media that Ken Hershman is going to change his stripes now that he’s at HBO and has cut ties with Golden Boy. What makes anyone believe that he is going to change his old habits?